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>Posted on 15 Jan 1997 at 03:40:35 by Bill Bott
on lights and AL housingL:

>....... it seem
> to me that Mag Light has made quite a business making Aluminum housed lights.
>The fact the Aluminum conducts electricity is a good thing.  You have one less
>ire to worry about as the case could be used to carry current from the back of
> stack of cells.  In fact you could have NO wiring at all.
>
>
>I think cost of manufacturing and weight of such a light would be better argume
>ts for why one would no want to make backup lights from Aluminum.  Pound for po
>nd plastics give a better bang for the buck in this (light) case.  Molding and
>xtruding plastics is faster, cheaper, and easier than milling or machining Alum
>num.  further, plastics are more than suitable for a "light" duty task like thi
>.

I claim no deep insight into plastics but some of them do not
take the temperature extremes lightly and some of them do crack
if hit with a sharp object.  AL takes both of these abuse modes
in stride.

John

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